lucrative
- profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
Origin of lucrative
Related Words for lucrative
profitable, good, worthwhile, fruitful, advantageous, fatness, gainful, remunerative, sweet, high-incomeExamples from the Web for lucrative
Contemporary Examples of lucrative
Dance instructors run a lucrative trade offering private lessons to couples before their wedding receptions, typically the tango.
Add on some lucrative sponsorship deals with Pepsi, Adidas, and Turkish Airlines, and he takes home about $65 million a year.
There is certainly a lucrative yet dignified sweet spot between small time micro-brewer and soulless mass-producer.
And this week CNPC agreed to buy 10 percent of Vankorneft, a Rosneft subsidiary, which operates the lucrative Vankor oil field.
It was the first of many hits, a lucrative side project that earned Noor around $350 per target.
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Historical Examples of lucrative
It was said that since the 31st of August he had been carrying on a most lucrative business with the Prussians.
The DownfallEmile Zola
But his practice as a portrait-painter was not lucrative, nor his popularity lasting.
I 'll not say it will be anything very splendid or lucrative, but something he shall have.
One Of ThemCharles James Lever
Foreign trade was lucrative in just the proportion that it was hazardous.
Union and DemocracyAllen Johnson
The most lucrative undertaking in the Colony is that of a shrine.
The Philippine IslandsJohn Foreman
lucrative
- producing a profit; profitable; remunerative
Word Origin for lucrative
Word Origin and History for lucrative
early 15c., from Old French lucratif "profitable" and directly from Latin lucrativus "gainful, profitable," from lucratus, past participle of lucrari "to gain," from lucrum "gain, profit" (see lucre). Related: Lucratively; lucrativeness.